All those who ran interference for Israel in the early months of the genocide are complicit. This includes outlets like Haaretz and scholars such as Omer Bartov, who even published in the New York Times to dismiss genocide claims, only to suggest it became clear by March 2024. 1/ 2/ Unless they acknowledge their role, they are engaging in historical revisionism to shield themselves from accountability.

Israelis should expect the same treatment Germans faced during WWII. This is not about Judaism, it is about a genocidal settler state and the arrogant impunity with which its citizens present themselves to the world.

To avoid this Israelis should wear “free Palestine” t-shirts

https://twitter.com/abierkhatib/status/1957857176179147250

Zionism should be denounced everywhere just like Nazism was.

It may mean “different things to different people” but its manifestation since forever is genocidal and discriminatory.

🧠Neuroscience thought🧠

Neuroscientists already know a great deal about how the brain and body respond to chronic trauma and stress. Research on Holocaust survivors, as well as animal studies on chronic social defeat from rats to primates,

1/ 2/ has mapped out many of the pathways, neurotransmitters, hormones etc involved. What remains largely unknown, however, is what happens after a person commits atrocities, after dehumanizing entire groups and enacting violence upon them.

I honestly don’t get people who say they’re “tired” of separating Zionism from Judaism, as if it’s some favor they’re doing for Jewish people.

This isn’t about protecting anti-Zionist Jews. That’s small potatoes compared to the function of the conflation.

Short 🧵1/ 2/ It’s the responsibility of anyone on the left who can identify the real enemy of the working class, in the Global south and BIPOC within empire in particular: white supremacy at the behest of gangster capitalism. The conflation serves this enemy.

Trial balloons are a common tactic for regimes to test public reaction before rolling out policies of aggression and theft. This has long been central to Zionist settler expansionism and has only accelerated since its genocidal campaign starting October 7.

A thread 🧵 1/ 2/ pre Oct 7th the Azaria summary execution: yoavlitvin.com/azarias-execut…

The western liberal class, spanning all identities, bends over backwards to avoid confronting its own privilege and complicity in white supremacist genocide.

Short thread 🧵1/ 2/ Nowhere is this clearer than in the pitiful mea culpas of liberal Zionists and the eagerness of their peers to forgive, forget and move on, during a genocide no less!

Starvation is a tool of colonization, weaponized to weaken bodies, fracture bonds, undermine social cohesion, fuel internal aggression, weaken resistance and turn survival into an isolating struggle.

A thread 🧵 1/ 2/ These conditions are neither natural nor inevitable; they are constructed and inflicted deliberately to serve a white supremacist goal: to manufacture potentially lethal chaos within Palestinian society and shift blame for genocide onto the victims themselves.

On learned helplessness and Zionist psychological torture.

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Genocide destroys far more than human lives. It aims to erase an entire people’s existence. Beyond mass killing, it dismantles families and communities, erases culture, language and religion and... 2/ severs ties to land and history. Survivors are left with deep psychological trauma, often passed down through generations, while political, economic and social structures are shattered.

On Cecil Rhodes, Herzl and #ZionismIsWhiteSurepmacy

A short thread 1/ 🧵

Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902) was a British imperialist, businessman and politician who played a central role in expanding British rule in southern Africa. He believed in the racial and cultural supremacy of 2/ the Anglo-Saxon world. Cecil Rhodes was an explicit white supremacist who saw British imperial expansion as a moral mission. He believed that Anglo-Saxons were destined to rule the world and that non-European peoples were inferior and

Here’s a thread of anti-colonial thinkers from the Global South, Black revolutionaries, Indigenous folks who've called Zionism what it is: white supremacy cloaked in divine entitlement, serving Western power.

A thread 🧵 1/ 2/ Malcolm X

View on Zionism: Called Zionism a form of white colonialism.

He also connected Zionism to the same white supremacist forces oppressing Black Americans and colonized peoples.

The aim of liberal Zionist propaganda at this stage is to salvage the Zionist project. To that end, prominent figures like former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have begun publicly denouncing Netanyahu and his government, accusing them of committing genocide.

Thread 🧵 1/ 2/ This has sparked excitement in some circles, “Even Israeli leaders are calling it genocide!,” but this is not progress. On the contrary, by acknowledging that NOW it is genocide, specifically in reference to Operation Gideon’s Chariots, they achieve several strategic goals:

Israel is carrying out a plan to destroy Palestinian society from within.

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Other than a tool to move the population southward as part of a brazen criminal displacement campaign, the starvation of Gaza has another insidious deliberate objective- 2/ socially engineered atomization of the people in Gaza, designed to create extreme deprivation, societal chaos and internal strife, particularly through food scarcity and lack of control and subsequently as a pretext for further genocide, expulsion, theft and domination.

Israeli society is cooked.
There is no way to sustain a functioning society long term while committing overt, explicit, gleeful genocide. We are seeing this on every level of interpersonal relationships.

Short thread 🧵1/ 2/ Though these trends have always been a part of Zionism, liberal Zionism is what held it together - and the founders knew it. Now, with liberal Zionisms complete dissolution at the hands of Netanyahu, and the celebration of fascism and white supremacy, newarab.com/opinion/libera…

Zionism’s Metamorphosis: From Liberal Facade to Shameless Fascism

A thread 🧵 1/ 2/ In recent months, Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has stripped away the last remnants of Zionism’s liberal pretenses, exposing its ideological foundation as one which fully embraces fascism. aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/…

How Does Dehumanizing Propaganda Work?

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Dehumanizing propaganda operates by constructing a rigid divide between "us" and "them." 2/ As humans, we do not instinctively recognize those close to us - we rely on learned cues and social conditioning. We ask ourselves: Does this person look like me? Act like me? Play like me? Eat like me? Pray like me? Here lies the opportunity for manipulation.

Something about No Other Land and the attention it's receiving has been bothering me. Naturally, the liberal establishment and Hollywood champion Israeli/ Palestinian "cooperation" against "the occupation," conveniently avoiding any confrontation with Zionism itself
1/ 2/ as a genocidal, white supremacist ideology. The two-sideism/ normalizing approach permeates through No Other Land - from its title and the friendship it highlights.

On the false solidarity of American Jewish liberals

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American Jewish liberals and their allies reinforce Zionist propaganda through the embrace of the "Jewish supremacy" antisemitic fallacy. 2/ By positioning Jews and Judaism within frameworks of oppression, these narratives not only uphold the myth of Israel as a "Jewish state," thus promoting and legitimizing its colonial narrative, but also

On @elonmusk Nazi salute, @JGreenblattADL and the ZIonism-antisemitism connection.

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Once upon a time a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist,” Musk found himself at odds with Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Zionist lobby group 2/ and self-styled “anti-hate organisation” the Anti-Defamation League (@ADL), after airing his views in an X space with far-right antisemites and conspiracy theorists Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes, among others.

On @PiersUncensored and the normalization of genocide.

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Since October 7, 2023, white settler propaganda has ramped up through two insidious tactics targeting western audiences. 2/ The first rationalizes Israel’s brutality under the pretext of “self-defense” of a supposed “civilized” western democracy in a barbaric region, exploiting the conflation of Zionism with Judaism and dehumanizing all Palestinian people as “terrorists” to legitimize the ongoing

Here's a thread of hit pieces I've written over the years, targeting the full range of Zionist apologists, from the "liberal" propagandist to the overtly genocidal.

🧵1/ 2/ @benshapiro
(i) counterpunch.org/2019/05/13/unc…
(ii) mondoweiss.net/2018/12/hypocr…

The role of dehumanization in genocide

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Recent research has advanced understanding of why people participate in genocide. 2/ Influences like peer pressure, group norms and obedience to authority often outweigh deeply held beliefs or ideologies. Class, economic inequality and lack of resources also make some individuals more vulnerable to coercion. items.ssrc.org/insights/dehum…